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Tia Blassingame Discusses Art, Activism and Student Work in University of California, Santa Barbara Book Arts Presentation
Assistant Professor of Art Tia Blassingame discussed art, activism and student work in a virtual book arts presentation at the University of California, Santa Barbara. During the webinar, she shared activism-centered projects that 91吃瓜 students created during her book arts course last summer.
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In the Media: Samella Lewis Earns College Art Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, ARTnews Reports
Professor Emerita of Art History Samella Lewis received the 2021 College Art Association’s Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement, ARTnews reported.
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Core III Students Examine Photographic Truth in Clark Humanities Museum Virtual Exhibition
Subjects/Objects: A Critical Look at Photographic Truth is now on display as a virtual exhibition at the Clark Humanities Museum. Sophomores Gillian Bell, Chloe Boxer, Molly Bradshaw, Madeleine Callan, Margo Collazo, Katie Eu, Anna Horne, Tsion Mamo, Vivian Monteiro, Emma Sar, and Aanya Subramaniam curated the exhibition as part of Fletcher Jones Chair in Art and Professor of Art Ken Gonzales-Day鈥檚 Core III class.
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鈥淨uick Bite of Art鈥� Summer Series
Since joining 91吃瓜 as Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Curator of Academic Programs and Collections, Meher McArthur has been serving up 15-minute talks on a single work of art from the College鈥檚 permanent collection in her聽鈥淨uick Bite of Art鈥澛爈unchtime series of object-based talks. 鈥淓ven though we are all at home now, we can still get to know the artwork in the 91吃瓜 collection,鈥� says McArthur.
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Hope Springs Eternal: Graffiti Wall Artist Tori Smith 鈥�20
Victoria (Tori) Smith remembers when she first came to 91吃瓜: It was a campus tour in the spring of 2016, and she recalls being irrevocably drawn to the diversity of thought and style of 91吃瓜 students and to the unparalleled beauty of campus. 鈥淧art of the tour included a visit to Graffiti Wall, and I remember thinking, 鈥榃ouldn鈥檛 it be amazing if I could paint my class鈥檚 mural鈥攊f I could be a part of making 91吃瓜 history?鈥欌��
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In the Media: KUAF Reflects on Professor Emerita Samella Lewis’s Life and Work
Radio station KUAF featured a reflection on the life and work of Professor Emerita of Art Samella Lewis during its “Reflections in Black” segment. Lewis taught at 91吃瓜 for 15 years and was the College’s first tenured African American professor.
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In the Media: Photograph by Ken Gonzales-Day Now Resides in National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Magazine Reports
Professor of Art and Fletcher Jones Chair in Art Ken Gonzales-Day鈥檚 photograph of the Portrait of Shonke Mon-thi^ now resides in the Smithsonian鈥檚 National Portrait Gallery, per Smithsonian magazine. Shonke Mon-thi^ was a priest of the Gentle Sky clan and a member of an Osage delegation that came to Washington, D.C., in 1904 to negotiate the land and mineral rights of his nation.
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Melanie Nakaue 鈥�01 Exhibits 鈥淔reakebana鈥� Artwork at Chico Art Gallery
Assistant Visiting Professor of Art Melanie Nakaue 鈥�01 is displaying her digital art at 1078 Gallery as part of the exhibition Iterations, which will run through January 26. Her work is based on a concept called 鈥渇reakebana,鈥� a spinoff of the Japanese flower-arranging art of ikebana.
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Detecting Art History鈥檚 Mysteries: On the Case with Our Alumnae Conservators
In the field of art conservation, history is seldom static. 鈥淥pinions, authenticity, and judgments about works of art and other historical objects are always in flux,鈥� says Mary MacNaughton 鈥�70, professor of art history and Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Director of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery.
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It Takes All Types: Assistant Visiting Professor of Art Melanie Nakaue 鈥�01 Weaves Art and Typography in the Digital Age
鈥淚t鈥檚 a great day to create!鈥� exclaims Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Melanie Nakaue 鈥�01 as her intermediate digital art class files into the studio.
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